Republican Union of Ecuador

The Republican Union was a liberal Catholic political party in Ecuador that was founded in 1883. The party held power in the government from 1888 to 1895, and it appealed to a wide range of voters due to its mixture of liberal free market and social policies and its conservative interventionist and militarist views. The party retained power until 1895, when a scandal involving arms sales to Japan led to Luis Cordero Crespo's resignation as president.